Large Product list, fails to index pages if qty set to above 700

[compaid]

believe this was a know issue in rel 2 but not fixed in 3.6.

If you have say 5000 products in a cat then the page index fails to work and you loose products off the list. Set to 700 in VM config max products per page row VM, (template in config) etc and the paging works. Needs to be fixed to allow ability to go beyond 700 to even list all products if required.
Spent ages trying to figure out why 700 was the limit, go beyond and the page selections dont work or don't go to end of cat.

Joomla 3.9
PHP 7.3

[StefanSTS]

If I remember right, it is hardcoded to 700 maximum products shown.

There might be a reason to that.